This gem allows you to use HTTParty with auto cookie management.
Cookies returned in the responses will be saved and automatically sent in the next requests!
Getting started:
"gem install httparty_with_cookies"
Then you'll need a class to use it:
require 'httparty_with_cookies'
class My_awesome_cookie_using_api
include HTTParty_with_cookies
end
api = My_awesome_cookie_using_api.new
api.get 'http://someurl.com/endpoint'
api.cookies['darkside'] #=> 'We have cookies!'
If you're familiar with HTTParty. then the rest of the gem's usage will be simple to you, since this gem is basically handling saving and send the cookies in HTTParty. If you don't know HTTParty, you can read about it here, this gem just making using cookies with it brainless and painless.
##Limitations Currently this gem will read all the cookies the server returns save it on your class' instance and for any next request it will send the cookies back - pays no attention to domain or expiration information.
This works as a module providing instance methods to a class and not as module with class methods as HTTParty!
Like most open source, I've made this because it solves my problem, and perhaps other people's with similar problems, feel free to add if it's not enough for you :)
##Development On spec/server there's a very small sinatra sever with cookie setting page, cookie reading page and a no cookies at all page, made to support get, post, delete and put methods, you'll need to fire this server up before running the spec tests. I cheated a little bit on the spec, don't hate me.
##Weird cases As of 0.2.0 you can get cookies from 3xx responses, but it's not as straight forward as it should be (that will be fixed soon™). Here's an example of how to get the cookies from a 302 response:
post SIGNIN, limit: 1, body: {:username => username, :password => password}
rescue HTTParty::RedirectionTooDeep => r
@last_response = r.response
set_cookies
300 range responses for now don't go through #set_cookies on their on, so if you're depended on cookies there, you'll have to manually catch them.